Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2

Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by geofft on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:51PM (#10089815)

The root cause of the things you love about HN is that people are honest. Praise on HN is genuine because condemnation is genuine. If you want people to be truly passionate about changing the world, about disrupting entrenched inefficiencies that are bad for people, about seeing Silicon Valley be the best that Silicon Valley can be, they will call you out when you fall short of that.

If you don't want to be disappointed, fund better startups.

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Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by ed on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:55PM (#10089954)

> The root cause of the things you love about HN is that people are honest.

I've been here a while and that's never made HN great. HN is supposed a welcoming place for smart folks with an interest in the small intersection between tech and business.

It's always felt like an implicit rule, but it's pretty simple: don't be a dick, and don't discourage people from exploring ideas they think are interesting. What positive outcome could that possibly have?

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Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by bliti on Thursday August 20, 2015 @01:35AM (#10090161)

Honest != being a dick. You can be honest whilst respecting the other person. Being a dick just shows that you are a dick.

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Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by bliti on Thursday August 20, 2015 @01:28AM (#10090145)

When you say better startups, what do you mean?

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